Jordan Spieth fires a fist pump after winning the John Deere Classic on Sunday in Silvis, Ill. Spieth defeated Zach Johnson and David Hearn on the fifth hole of a playoff.

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RICK BROWN
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SILVIS, Ill. - Jordan Spieth, 19, became the youngest player to win a PGA Tour event in 82 years Sunday. And he did it by surviving a grueling five-hole, sudden-death playoff with defending champion Zach Johnson and David Hearn at the John Deere Classic.

Spieth, who got into the playoff when he holed a bunker shot on the final hole of regulation that he called "the luckiest shot I've ever hit in my life," become the youngest winner since 19-year-old Ralph Guldahl won the Santa Monica Open in 1931.

"I don't know what I did to deserve all those breaks," Spieth said. ...